[of The Ether] It Is No Greater

Ether Is The Only Substance We Are Confident Of In Dynamics. One Thing We Are Sure Of And That Is The Reality And Substantiality Of The Luminferous Ether.

It Is Conceivable That Animal Life Might Have The Attribute Of Using The Heat Of Surrounding Matter, At Its Natural Temperature, As A Source Of Energy For Mechanical Effect . . . .the Influence Of Animal Or Vegetable Life On Matter Is Infinitely Beyond The Range Of Any Scientific Enquiry Hitherto Entered On. Its Power Of Directing The Motions Of Moving Particles, In The Demonstrated Daily Miracle Of Our Human Free-will, And In The Growth Of Generation After Generation Of Plants From A Single Seed, Are Infinitely Different From Any Possible Result Of The Fortuitous Concurrence Of Atoms.

If You Cannot Measure It, Then It Is Not Science.

Nothing Can Be More Fatal To Progress Than A Too Confident Reliance On Mathematical Symbols; For The Student Is Only Too Apt To Take The Easier Course, And Consider The Formula Not The Fact As The Physical Reality.

Do Not Imagine That Mathematics Is Hard And Crabbed, And Repulsive To Common Sense. It Is Merely The Etherealization Of Common Sense.